Taroko Xiangde Temple 祥德寺
Xiangde Temple 祥德寺
The Xiangde Temple 祥德寺 is the centerpiece of the terrace in Taroko National park and is a popular spot for visitors and buddhist worshipers. At one end, a giant statute of the Bodhisattva Buddha stands on top of the terrace with the seven-story Tianfeng Pagoda 天峰塔 nearby, standing tall like a watchtower. Push yourself to climb to the top of this pagoda and be rewarded with an exquisite 360 degree lookout over the gorge and Tianxiang area. The main temple was completed in December 1968. The Daxiong Boudian, Tianfeng Pagoda and the White Robed Guanyin were then successively built.
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972, Taiwan, Hualien County, Xiulin Township, 天祥10號
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Tianxiang and other TAROKO trails - Taiwan
Tianfeng Pagoda (located at Tianxiang), the trail from Lushui to Heliu, the Tunnel of Nine turns trail, the Swallow groot trails... are some of the great trails you can do in Taroko National Park --
Visitar la pagoda de Tianfent (en Tianxiang), hacer el espectacular trail que va desde Lushui hasta Heliu, el tunnel de las nueve vueltas (tunnel of nine turns trail), que actualmente se encuentra cerrado debido al paso del Tifón Morakot en el año 2009, o el Swallog Grotto Cave trail son algunos de los increíbles trails que se pueden hacer en el Parque Nacional de Taroko, Taiwan
????️⛰️????TAROKO GORGE -- Tianxiang & Baiyang Trail (太魯閣--天祥/白楊步道)
At the western end of Taroko Gorge is the tiny village of Tianxiang where we stayed a night at the Silks Place Taroko. The next day we walked the scenic Baiyang Trail.
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01:20 Silks Place Taroko
10:30 Tianfeng Pagoda and Xiangde Temple
16:15 Baiyang Trail
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From Travel in Taiwan magazine 2018-7-8:
Silks Place Taroko
A sumptuous place to spend a Taroko Gorge night is at the refined Silks Place Taroko hotel, where dark-stain wood is the dominant interior theme, smartly complementing the marble-white facade. It’s located at the edge of Tianxiang on a picturesque perch – atop the low-plateau point where the Liwu and Dasha rivers meet before the combined waters rush through the inner gorge for more forceful rock-sculpting. The riverbed here is strewn with massive boulders of widely differing striated artwork – including one of pure marble – and macaques make their way down the steep wooded slopes for a drink in the morning. Though deep in a gorge that is a Mother Nature aesthetic tour de force, a stay at this hotel is time spent in the lap of manmade luxury.
The range of amenities and special activities is too sweeping to cover fully, but a number stand out. There is a full spa, along with two superb pools, one indoor and one outdoor. The latter is on the roof, beside it a Jacuzzi, with both offering a wonderful 360-degree panorama. Indoor and outdoor activities oriented toward both kids and adults are offered. Of special note are the guided tours, Truku-theme weaving sessions, nighttime indigenous dance shows in the lovely inner courtyard and mini-concerts by the rooftop poolside fireplace, and Moonlight Cinema showings by the rooftop pool, with patio loungers as seating.
The restaurant dinner and breakfast buffets have a delicious range of international and Chinese choices, and Retreat Floor (VIP) guests can choose to take breakfast in the sun-drenched rooftop Retreat Lounge, with Eastern/Western set meals. (Rooms, all very large, start at NT$8,000)
Silks Place Taroko (太魯閣晶英酒店)
Add: No. 18, Tianxiang Rd., Xiulin Township, Hualien County
(花蓮縣秀林鄉天祥路18號)
Tel: (03) 869-1155
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Baiyang Trail
The Baiyang Trail begins with a dramatic human-engineering flourish. You dive directly from the roadside into a straight-as-an-arrow 380m-long tunnel (bring a flashlight!) that pierces a mountain from the main gorge to a secondary gorge. At the end of the even-grade 2km section of the trail is a golden prize, which bursts into view upon exiting a tunnel. At a footbridge leaping a deep-cut cleft carved by a waterway seemingly too modest for the task, a lofty twin cataract plunges ethereally downward from vertigo-inducing heights. The trail was constructed as a narrow cliff-hugging road by the Taiwan Power Company in 1984 for use in a later-cancelled hydropower project. There is in fact a further section beyond the present trail, currently closed for safety reasons.
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